James Reason

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This book explores the human contribution to the reliability and resilience of complex, well-defended systems. Usually the human is considered a hazard - a system component whose unsafe acts are implicated in the majority of catastrophic breakdowns. Meer

This succinct but absorbing book covers the main way stations on James Reason‘s 40-year journey in pursuit of the nature and varieties of human error. Meer

Major accidents are rare events due to the many barriers, safeguards and defences developed by modern technologies. But they continue to happen with saddening regularity and their human and financial consequences are all too often unacceptably catastrophic. Meer